Scared Straight
Critical Writing
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1996
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Abstract (in English):
Carol Stabile reviews Our Stolen Future.
Since the publication of Paul de Kruif’s Microbe Hunters in 1926, the genre of “scientific detective” stories has enjoyed a quiet but consistent level of popularity. Typically, these stories have functioned as celebrations of (or ideological guarantors for) the virtues of the scientific enterprise. This genre, however, properly belongs to an earlier era in the twinned history of science and industrialization: an era armed with certainty, rationality, and faith in scientific progress.
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As much as we would like to see the “nonhuman world” as an actor or agent, certain simple facts remain: a human economic system is the source of the problem.
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